Richard Rohr Quotes

Perhaps I can say that I am a bit astute, that I can adapt to circumstances, but it is also true that I am a bit naive. Yes, but the best summary, the one that comes more from the inside and I feel most true is this: I am a sinner whom the Lord has looked upon.

Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.

Sin recognized but that may keep us humble, But oh, it keeps us nasty.

Thankfully, while our self-righteousness reaches far, God's grace reaches farther.

Jesus didn't go around condemning people. The Bible says it's the goodness of God that leads people to repentance.

Jesus loves sinners. He only loves sinners. He has never turned anyone away who came to Him for forgiveness, and He died on the cross for sinners, not for respectable people.

I am and always will be a sinner. But that's the beautiful thing about Jesus. I'll always try to be a better person in the eyes of God. But I'm not all of a sudden stepping up on a pedestal and saying I'm holier than thou, 'cause I'm not!

Jesus teaches us to forgive and I've got to trust him on that one.

Who am I to pass judgment? Judgment has been passed on me, but I adhere to, 'Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.'

No one was ever scolded out of their sins.

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.

I try to be as real and honest about everything and very genuine with people and say, 'Listen, I'm a Christian, and I'm not perfect. I screw up every day, but I think that's what grace is all about.'

Only the sinner has the right to preach.

I know I'm a sinner.

I am mindful that we're all sinners.

God forgives us. ... Who am I not to forgive?

The love of Jesus Christ covers your sins, and it also gives you the power to let other people off the hook. You've been forgiven, and you can forgive others.

We have a generation of people who think they can stand before the judgment seat of God despite their sins.

God has nothing to say to the self-righteous. Unless you humble yourself before Him in the dust, and confess before Him your iniquities and sins, the gate of heaven, which is open only for sinners, saved by grace, must be shut against you forever.

When you hear of a notorious sinner, instead of thinking you do well to be angry, beg of Jesus Christ to convert, and make him a monument of his free grace.

In those moments when I'm obsessively counting my sins against me, it is good news to remember that God has counted my sins against Christ.

Christians aren't people who never sin or always do the right thing. We're people who live in continual repentance.

The prayer of one who does not consider himself a sinner is not accepted by the Lord.

I believe in a God of a second chance and a God of love and mercy, because I need so much more of it myself.